Wonderful Web Women

Hi

Today we were lucky enough to have David Barrett from Audio Acrobat spend 2 hours guiding us through Audio Acrobat and answering all our questions. Because this was a bonus call I have made the replay available to everyone for a limited time. You can listen to the replay here: http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3339345 

To show you how easy this program is to use, I have created a 5 minute summary for you using the program. Just click the play button below to hear my message. All I did was ring up, record my voice, copied the little bit of code they gave me and pasted it into my blog here. Ta Dum!! All done.

You can use Audio Acrobat for the following things:

• add a welcome message to your site (have a look at the home page of wonderful web women, I just changed it).

• let customers leave an audio testimonial using a special number you set up with one click (see our testimonial page and see an example) - go on, leave a testimonial. I want to see if it works

• Easily add the testimonials from your customers to your web site

• Add your voice to the final page of your shoppingcart to guide people through the process of buying

• create an audio product (for example an interview) and sell it

• send people a link in an email and let them download your audio or listen on-line with no need for an attachment - or a website for that matter

• record an interview you do on your own phone, by adding audio acrobat in as the third person on a 3 way conversation. That way your guest does not need to ring the US if you are both in another country like Australia

• creat a podcast and add to 16 podcast directories with 2 clicks

• add video to your web site

• Easily make it pay for itself and then pay you extra through an easy affiliate program

You can trial Audio Acrobat for 1  month for free then it’s less than $20 per month (and you can cover this cost by recommending it to other people who will benefit).

I’m going to be really testing it out this month and I’d love to hear you stories. Why not share them here on the blog and also on the forum?

Janet

Hi

Today we were lucky enough to have David Barrett from Audio Acrobat spend 2 hours guiding us through Audio Acrobat and answering all our questions. Because this was a bonus call I have made the replay available to everyone for a limited time. You can listen to the replay here: http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3339345 

To show you how easy this program is to use, I have created a 5 minute summary for you using the program. Just click the play button below to hear my message. All I did was ring up, record my voice, copied the little bit of code they gave me and pasted it into my blog here. Ta Dum!! All done.

You can use Audio Acrobat for the following things:

• add a welcome message to your site (have a look at the home page of wonderful web women, I just changed it).

• let customers leave an audio testimonial using a special number you set up with one click (see our testimonial page and see an example) - go on, leave a testimonial. I want to see if it works

• Easily add the testimonials from your customers to your web site

• Add your voice to the final page of your shoppingcart to guide people through the process of buying

• create an audio product (for example an interview) and sell it

• send people a link in an email and let them download your audio or listen on-line with no need for an attachment - or a website for that matter

• record an interview you do on your own phone, by adding audio acrobat in as the third person on a 3 way conversation. That way your guest does not need to ring the US if you are both in another country like Australia

• creat a podcast and add to 16 podcast directories with 2 clicks

• add video to your web site

• Easily make it pay for itself and then pay you extra through an easy affiliate program

You can trial Audio Acrobat for 1  month for free then it’s less than $20 per month (and you can cover this cost by recommending it to other people who will benefit).

I’m going to be really testing it out this month and I’d love to hear you stories. Why not share them here on the blog and also on the forum?

Janet

Today I interviewed Pat Lynch from Women’s Radio about “Speaking Up and getting your voice heard”. Pat has an incredibly inspiring story of perseverance which I hope will inspire many to stick with your vision, even against the odds. Pat owns Women’s Radio, a large network which features a collective of web hosts who run radio programs on topics targeted at women. These topics are not just on women’s issues but are targeted at women. For example there are radio programs on business, health, travel, music - you name it, it is there or will be.

In this article I share with you strategies to get your voice heard, using both Pat’s website (www.womensradio.com) and Pat’s techniques and your own web site.

How to Spread the word about your expertise through Women’s Radio

The mission of Women’s Radio is to give women a greater voice over a wider geographic area. The influence of this program reaches hundreds of thousands of women. Women’s radio can help grow your business (or your political campaign or social interest group) in the following way:

1. Apply to host a radio program through Women’s Radio. To apply, visit http://www.womensradio.com/Pages/Contact.htm and tell Pat that you heard her on Wonderful Web Women and would like info on how to be a host. Tell her a bit about yourself as well.

2. Be a featured guest on one of the programs. Again, contact Pat through http://www.womensradio.com/Pages/Contact.htm and tell her a bit about your expertise.

3. Contribute articles : You can submit articles as a guest author

How To Host Your Own Program

When Pat moved her radio station from traditional radio to internet radio, she had a wish list of what technology she wanted to make it possible. It wasn’t available at the time so she and her partner, David, contracted a team to develop it for them. The result? Audio Acrobat. I’ve noticed this used on many sites, especially those of successful marketers.

These are just a few of the things you can do with Audio Acrobat:

• record your voice and put it as an intro on your website
• record an interview
• record segments for a radio program or teleseminar (eg intros, interviews, adds, music transitions) and then select what order you want each played in and when to play
• create podcasts with just 2 clicks (submits to 16 different podcast directories)
• quickly put audio on your website or blog without having to be a techy (just cut and paste)
• You can also do all the same things with video

Using this technology you can really simply have recordings of your interviews and ideas on your own website. You can even create a site that has guest hosts who all contribute their recordings to your “radio site” and create your own radio hub for your own niche.

But let’s keep it simple.

Sign up for Audio Acrobat for their free 1 month trial. Create a short audio introduction to your website by ringing in on the number they provide. Then cut and paste the recording to your website. That’s what I will be doing this week as I spend the next month “testing it out”. I’d love to hear your experiences. Here’s one that was shared on the call by Richard from California “LoL, I can not say enough great things about Audio Acrobat ! What a great tool! I use it with overt 90% of my clients ! TalkToMeGuy Productions”

Cheers

Janet

Over the last few weeks we have heard from a few speakers about different ways to use social networking to grow your business on the Internet. Today, Michele Pariza Wacek showed us how to tie it all together into a Web 2.0 strategy.

Over the next week I will be sharing with you a few of the concepts Michele introduced. Today I’d like to share with you a concept that is close to my heart - “Leverage”.

Michele’s 7 step recipe for Web 2.0 traffic

Raw Ingredients: 

Prepare beforehand: 1 great quality article, 500 words in length that gives great content on your topic

Step 1: Include your article in your email newsletter / ezine.

• Send your newsletter at least once per month. Michele recommends once per week
• This develops a relationship with people on your list

Step 2: Post the article to your blog

• Your blog is central to your Web 2.0 strategy.
• Blogs are favoured by educated, affluent people (ie, good paying customers)
• Use Wordpress software on your own domain (free with Wonderful Web Hosting). Michele also has a hosting and blog facility for $100 / yr. Her contact details are below)

Step 3: Add your blog to your social networking sites

• You can actually  import your blog into Facebook in the notes section of your profile
• Facebook gets more traffic than Google and the average age is 39 (not all teenagers)
• I have just added this to my Facebook account. Be my friend? I’ll show you later this week on this blog how I did this.

Step 4: Cut your article into bite size pieces

• Use these tasty morsels to answer questions in blog posts and forums
• Post these answers on other people’s blogs as comments

Step 5: Record yourself reading your article

• simply record yourself reading your article (use an MP3 recorder or record straight onto your computer)
• Add the audio to your BLOG using a wordpress plug in for podcasts (search Google for wordpress plugins)
• You can then take the podcast “feed” information that is given to you through this podcast plug in, and submit it to podcast directories such as itunes (search Google for podcast directories) 

Step 6: Create a press release

• Use the 500 words you have written and create a press release
• submit this to press release directories on the Internet
• This will get you traffic but importantly will get you noticed in the mainstream media

Step 7: Submit your article to article directories / portals

• Spread the love. Your original 500 word article can now be submitted to websites that let people use your article on their own websites (with links back to your site of course)

As you can see, this is the recipe, but like any good cook there are gourmet techniques you need to master to create a true Web 2.0 degustation (how far can I carry this analogy?). This is where Michele comes in. She has created a comprehensive package that shows you how to do all these steps. It is not just information (though mind you, she has even loaded the recordings directly onto an Mp3 player for you). It includes checklists, excel spreadsheets, links to the directories she uses, how to write the articles, press releases and how to create a podcast and heaps more.

You can grab this here, and she even has a 4 part payment plan. After you purchase, email Michele at michele (at) michelepw.com and tell her you are from Wonderful Web Women. She will send you a $50 refund and also send you her digital book “Why Isn’t My Web Site Making Me Any Money? 10 Easy Steps To Make Your Web Site Go Ka-Ching!”.

You receive the digital version immediately and the physical version within the week.

I’d love to hear of your ideas on this strategy. Watch the blog this week. I’ll be sharing with you screen grabs of how I added this blog to Facebook and also Michele’s 3 reasons why people use the Internet (you must cover at least 2 to succeed).

Cheers

Janet

Today’s interview with  Heidi Nabert about podcasting and Web 2.0 opened up huge possibilities for many of our listeners (including me). We covered an amazing amount of material which you can listen to in just a few hours if you are a gold member of Wonderful Web Women. If you are not a gold member yet you can upgrade by clicking on the “benefits of gold membership” on the left had side of the page after you log into the members area.

Today I will share with you 10 ways Heidi has identified to make money from podcasting, as well as tell you what podcasting is. But first, a few gifts:

1. You can download the slides of a presentation Heidi gave at the last Bridging Heart and Marketing Conference in the US a few weeks ago. This gives you a great understanding of podcasting.

2. I ask all our guests to make a special offer just to our members and Heidi’s offer is incredible. She is giving a genuine $1000 discount on her upcoming podcasting coaching program plus great bonuses for quick movers. If this is an area you are even thinking about learning, then check out her offer.

3. Heidi has also gifted her recent digital book on Podcasting to listeners on the call and also our GOLD members. I’ve just been reading through this and it’s an amazing gift. For one, she lists all the technology they have tested and use, and show you which ones are best. This will be available to gold members at the same time as the recording is uploaded.

What Is A Podcast?

If you have an MP3 player, such as an ipod, you can go to places like iTunes and download music to your iPod. You can also subscribe to a “feed” which means every time you open up your computer, iTunes will automatically download the latest audio in the series you have subscribed to. You can then listen to it on your MP3, computer or even burn to CD.

A podcast uses the same system (an RSS feed) and you can download interviews etc that you have created. In fact, people can download your podcast through iTunes. It’s not just for music.

 45, 100, 38

These are numbers to pay attention to.

45% of email doesn’t get through

100% of podcasts get through

38% of people are auditory learners, so they like listening instead of reading

10 Ways To Make Money From Podcasts

1. Create an online presence. People get to know you, like you and trust you. Only then will they buy

2. Establish expert status in your niche - people will place high value on what you sell

3. Create a power point presentation to go with your audio. You can then post your audio to YouTube and drive heaps of traffic to your site.

4. Create and audio e-book from your podcast recordings

5. Transcribe the audio to create ebooks, auto-responders and articles

6. Advertisers and sponsors pay you to be placed in your podcast

7. Credibility - people will then pay high prices for workshops you run

7. Lead generation. The client is already pre-closed / sold. For example Heidi generates interested leads for her off-line business.

9. Early movers will win against web sites in the same niche

10. Branded courses based on your podcasts

All  these ideas you can use and they don’t even include paying to listen to your podcast!

I’d love to hear your experiences with podcasting or any questions you may have. Just leave them here on the bog or go over to http://www.wonderfulwebforum.com and share your ideas and questions with other people in our community.

Cheers

Janet